skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To have good comparison/calibration between candidates, you should be asking the same question each time, so it can't be about the "problem the team is currently undergoing", because that's going to be something different every week/month.

In general however, of course, there is/should be a round of interview that covers architecture/system design. It's just that the coding interview is a different interview type, which gives a different kind of signal, which is still important. It doesn't replace architecture interview, it complements it.
The idea that the homeless are residents who have now been displaced is a misnomer, especially in Seattle. Seattle has abundant housing and welfare choices and very loose enforcement of any laws. Up north you can get a govt provided tiny home with high speed internet, if one were to choose to leave the streets.
Your comment contains some interesting assumptions. I don’t think we are aligned on how to surface thought processes.

Your comment, taken to extreme, would say there is no point in looking for software design skills at all, because we can “train” anyone with an internal coding boot camp. I doubt that is what you mean.
Agreed!

Apify's Website Content Crawler[0] does a decent job of this for most websites in my experience. It allows you to "extract" content via different built-in methods (e.g. Extractus [1]).

We currently use this at Magic Loops[2] and it works _most_ of the time.

The long-tail is difficult though, and it's not uncommon for users to back out to raw HTML, and then have our tool write some custom logic to parse the content they want from the scraped results (fun fact: before GPT-4 Turbo, the HTML page was often too large for the context window... and sometimes it still is!).

Would love a dedicated tool for this. I know the folks at Reworkd[3] are working on something similar, but not sure how much is public yet.

[0] https://apify.com/apify/website-content-crawler

[1] https://github.com/extractus/article-extractor

[2] https://magicloops.dev/

[3] https://reworkd.ai/
I have (sad) news for you:
That goes for MOST of the world. Do you truly think in whatever new version of Nike sneakers there's truly something new and revolutionary in it or more likely "a ton of marketing and a 5% performance improvement"?
I first thought that a Private Label Card would be the way to go but thats like a store card someplace, not a Visa/MC network thing.

https://www.globalpayments.com/partners/financial-institutio...

This would be a place to start - talk to someone there and tell then what you want to do. Get your hoop-jumping outfit on before hand.
I pay $100 per month, this calculation can't be right.
the fact that it doesnt have analog triggers is so annoying because otherwise i LOVE the switch pro controller
best you can hope for is cpu pass through. Gl with using the rest of the chip
What a wonderful internet interaction!
> Web components get imported and registered at the global level. This also means if two different libraries have a component called my-button, you can’t use both of them.

In my opinion, fundamental problems like these really ought to be addressed before things become part of the web platform.
That sounds like privatizing the losses and socializing the profits and we just can’t have that here in the good ol’ US of A /s
It’s more about behaving like a chatbot or pre-programmed robot.

If dealing with situation B is not in the manual, they will tell u situation B can’t happen, even if it happening right now.
Pound-for-pound, science fiction short stories are perhaps the most worthwhile and personally enriching literary medium.

I love an endless series of giant fantasy novels, but I've read so so many SF short stories that really stick with you and make you think. As long as you're not going back to the old pulps, any decent collection is probably really good.
get a macbook then? they are similarly price to an ipad pro
Not the point. OP was jealous of the "nearly free money," i.e the low interest rate, not the amount borrowed.
> Giving your populace easy, uncontrolled access to this technology is actually causing rampant shootings.

Notice how one is “just asking” for a hypothetical risk while the other is an everyday fact of life.

The relationship between availability of guns and the amount of gun violence is extremely well-established. I personally am sympathetic to the view that an armed population is a meaningful deterrent against tyranny, but it’s hard to compare a hypothetical to a growing number of deaths. And the odd fact that firearms’ primary political role in our society is to intimidate people while voting doesn’t help either.
Why should we "save downtowns" is another
I just (barely) failed an automated interview by some company who posted on the last Hiring thread. Their approach was interesting but they definitely measure the wrong thing IMO. They were looking for senior Python devs yet assumed that every senior Python dev knew X, Y or Z Python API/feature by heart. I failed a single question, precisely one where I wasn't familiar with the particulars and couldn't "figure it out" live due to the nature of the platform.

I've worked on a Python interpreter (not CPython) for many years now, I just never used that particular module (because we do it differently in our implementation). I suppose businesses try their best, but aren't always measuring what they think they are...
I secretly think that the current big-tech regime continues to use these because they limit job mobility. They have an intentionally high false negative rates and because they're unrelated to actual engineering work you don't want to have to study up and gamble on trying to pass it again.
My problem is that the least wrong thing I know of is very different from all existing processes, and take more time and money than most are willing to stomach.
"speed and coordination"

Meth.

https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/
Interesting, I have a very similar guideline to using my ADHD medication.
I am a little jealous of my friends with switches. They seem to "just work" 99% of the time.

What paid off for Nintendo was a willingness to bet on games and take risks on changing up their strategy.

Other gaming experiences, ironically, lack the playfulness of the Switch. The design language and marketing has been on point.

They are 7 years deep though and the suspected new console will have big shoes to fill. How can they farm revenue while not offending their current customers?
This is what I was waiting on, but given it seems pretty clear that Apple wants to kill off mini devices and I've been waiting for an OLED iPad for years, I went ahead and got an iPad Pro 11
As someone who makes cold brew every day, this is one of the two approaches I've considered to speed things up, the other being one of those magnetic stirrers they have in chemistry lab.
However, after careful consideration, the real low-hanging-fruit here is the time it takes to grind the coffee, load it, fill the water, clean the filter, and rinse the jar. If a cold brew machine could automate these steps (like some hot coffee machines do) you wouldn't care about making a cup in 3 minutes because you'd always have an automatic jar ready for you from 24 hours ago.
Building your own exclusive IP over decades is profitable
For machine learning engineer roles a lot of companies are carrying over their leetcode questions from software engineering interviews. It makes it even more ridiculous. I’ve told recruiters that I have other interviews that don’t ask leetcode, and depending on how those go I’ll study leetcode.

I’m not a competitive programmer. I’m an engineer. If you want a competitive programmer go find a new grad who was in the competitive programming club in school. Assessing engineering skills with leetcode is like assessing bicyclists on their ability to swim.
Seeking medical insights in the physics of mucus
Look forward to something every day
That's largely my recollection too. HyperCard was hugely popular, especially as an introduction to programming for kids, but the Quadra Macs and their kin introduced color and everyone wanted color. HyperCard never got a native update for it and it was the number one feature everyone wanted.

There was a related product (SuperCard?) that offered color. I remember trying it but it was clunky. I don't remember why, but in any case, it never took off.

There was also the matter of HyperTalk's limited API. There was a market for ... extensions, I think they were called? Some developers really dominated that space for a while. (I wonder whatever happened to J5erson? He was brilliant.)

Extensions were commonly written in Pascal and could add a lot of capability to HyperTalk, and were a great stepping-stone for people that wanted to explore programming beyond HyperCard.

Decker looks like it has a lot of the good things from HyperCard -- simplicity, portability. Kind of a shame it isn't using something closer to HyperTalk though. It really was a nice language, for what it was.
In my Southern state they prefer to work at night because of how hot it is during the day. Something that could reasonably be called 'Summer' runs from about March to September here. More in some years. It was in the 70s New Years Day here this year.
> While I haven't been to a Red Lobster since I was a kid

Why not? Have you become “disgustingly elitist”?

The scenario I responded to didn’t involve family meals with children.

My original comment was referring to nothing other than the fact that the food at Red Lobsters is pretty terrible. It’s not about price - there are plenty of cheap restaurants that serve good food.

See https://slate.com/business/2013/12/red-lobster-s-bad-food-pr...
In some cases you can - most of the time codes don't allow it, but there are exceptions. Check the local laws..
This is potentially useful because people can be very impressionable when it comes to quantum magic. I think if I could build some kind of shiny heavy tangible apparatus to interface with the IBM compute service, with like seven segment LEDs (resist the urge to use Nixie tubes, this is a serious, practical device) with a big loud trigger and some kind of boutique radio, I would have a potentially very persuasive magic 8 ball I could use to influence and manipulate people, with carefully chosen false dichotomies.

Okay team, we’ve effectively entangled the success of our endeavor with the quantum dead man’s switch by all swearing to comply with the protocol. It’s time to start letting the universe tell us what works. QUESTION 1 for the Profit Manifold: promote yours truly to director or stay the course? Click bang hiss: 01.

Note to self: cut “universe B” (or just B? It’d hurt less) into my thigh with a razor blade 6 months before demonstrating The Device, as a plot device to be exploited for purposes TBD.
Seen MLX folks post on X about nice results running local LLMs. https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx

Also, Siri, and consider: you’re scaling AI on apple’s hardware, too, you can develop your own local custom AI on it, there’s more memory available for linear algebra in a maxed out MBP than the biggest GPUs you can buy.

They scale the VRAM capacity with unified memory and that plus a ton of software is enough to make the Apple stuff plenty competitive with the corresponding NVIDIA stuff for the specific task of running big AI models locally.
I've watched these. They're excellent.

They make me wonder why these European companies don't compete in US infrastructure projects?
But I can't just say I have "the world's fastest GXZ", when GXZ is just some marketing phrase. If we're willing to accept a GPU ~= NPU then it's just a meaningless claim.
I'd be curious to see how the ODROID-H4 PLUS performs compared to the similarly priced Chuwi LarkBox X: https://www.chuwi.com/product/items/Chuwi-LarkBox-X.html
Hyzon and New Way Unveil North America's First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Garbage Truck
I'm a huge Tesla fan, but the Bolt is amazing. I love renting them. I wish they could charge faster than 50kW; that would make them useful for road trips.
Id bet on disposable housing before I would bet on robotic plumbers.
Disagree with this
Yes. And in a city, it can be made more quiet.

And there are techniques to transporting natural light indoors.

This thread's obsession with bedroom windows, egress out them from 20 stories up, and "code" is nuts. We are in a housing crisis that is destroying the economic viability of several generations.

You could also have ceiling to floor OLED displays, or just a large display that shows the current view of the outside.

I also don't understand why they can't basically put large corridors across the building in addition to light transfer, more common space than hallway to provide more light if the interior residents want it.

Fundamentally, people want a safe, affordable place to sleep, go to the bathroom, and eat. Windows and views just need to be a quick walk away.

I possibly spend less than .1% of my time at home looking out a window. My bedrooms generally have the windows completely covered to maximize my sleep.

At generic hotel-motel rooms I almost never open the curtains.

It's ridiculous this isn't simply put up to market economics.

Finally I have a great idea for internal areas: simply provide them as storage units. Cheap, no water, minimal electricity, still makes money, and its one of the things people complain about city living.
This only holds if you consider written language the same as spoken language. Which I think is an interesting idea. Languages are symbolic systems of representation. Whether they map onto a spoken language, a signed language, or reality itself aren't written languages languages in their own right?

Earnest thoughts from someone with no training in the philosophy of language or linguistics.

EDIT: Also thanks for Behistun. Fascinating.
> SSD manufacturers are likely to store a mapping table of LBAs (logical block addresses) to PBAs (physical block addresses) in the DRAM or Host Memory Buffer.

Are LBA's a thing on SSD's nowadays? I thought it was the legacy of the spinning rust.

SSD's operate on memory pages of the flash memory, and the page management is a complicated affair that is also entirely opaque to the host operating system due to the behind the scenes page remapping. Since flash memory is less durable (in the long term), the SSD's come overprovisioned and the true SSD capacity is always more (up to a double if my memory serves me well). The SSD controller also runs an embedded RTOS that monitors failures in flash chips and proactively evacuates and remaps ailing flash memory pages onto the healthy ones. Owing to this behaviour, the memory pages that the SSD controller reports back to the operating system have another, entirely hidden, layer of indirection.
It's awful for some. For others, like those with mobility issues it can be the difference between being able to leave the house or not.
Mortal Kombat and FIFA sell less but general more profit. Profit margins
I haven't been interviewing full-time, but these past couple of years I have had barely any success. Currently getting insta-refused even for jobs with lower skill requirements. I've heard similar from friends and colleagues.

There's a bootstrap issue as well. A developer with a brand name on their resume is much more desirable than one without, even for equal skill and experience.
> From first principles, it is normal to ban material.

Sure.

> It appears that most of the handwringing is about politically disagreeing with the bans, not hardships of obeying bans

That is not true. The ban list is overly broad. The hobbit is banned in some locations. Harry potter and asoiaf... Maybe high schoolers and middle schoolers shouldn't be reading that stuff. Multiple teachers in multiple districts have been disciplined over books they did not expect. It is far more sustainable for teachers to avoid this issue.

> But they want this material (sexuality, gender, "race theory") available even to pretty young children because of their societal goals/agenda

I am not going to judge this statement's veracity. Let's take it as true. As I mentioned before, the issue would then be that they are also banning other books that have nothing to do with this, and that still makes the jobs of teachers difficult. It is not feasible to have this much overhead on book bans because of political battles and also expect teachers to manage this overhead.

Thanks for sharing your first principles argument. If you have the time, please share some numbers.
I really really hope [but doubt] Qubes OS runs on something like this with these caveats:

-using an add-in video card for dom0 gpu

-apple's on-die gpu can be passed through to a qube

-apple's unified memory does not need OS X to adjust the RAM/VRAM wall

Since I doubt these caveats are in play, I think I may be stuck with enterprise hand-me-downs that I can pass through.
I'd like to point out this book is available as a free download from the authors blog:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
I switched to Fastmail. Search performance didn’t seem to notably change.
I wouldn't argue with that.
Energy Systems: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Jenkins (2019) Oxford University Press.

I am very interested in figuring out how to reduce the cost of energy and given my background is only in CS and Economics, I frequently have to reference texts like this until I have a better understanding to move beyond
There's also the "React is the industry standard that tons of developers and companies use" vs. the "WebComponents is the 'official' standard that nearly nobody uses".

Yes, I'm being hyperbolic. But if you're worried about longevity I would certainly hitch my wagon to React before I hitched it to WebComponents.
I just checked, and my iPhone is using 152 GB of storage.

I have years of photos and videos on there.
Apparently the 256 GB model was the right choice for me?
And most mech/ee make <150k. A closer comparison is IB.
You should check out the Bitcoin whitepaper.
Hm maybe not that fast, whats considered fast?
WHy not do this

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If you make that central corridor wide enough the light will come in.

And regardless, convert these huge office spaces to huge apartments. If you get enough of those, the smaller residential apartments in the city will become cheaper.

These office buildings aren't making money. Who cares if you care out 3000 sq ft apartments out of it?

Here is another idea:

R R R R R R R R

R S S S S S S R

R S S S S S S R

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You know what S is? Storage. Doesn't even have to be resident storage, it can be separately accessed/serviced elevators. Perfect for office space, since it involves no additional plumbing, and probably even less electricity, and about the same HVAC needs.
I know people who live nearish the KC downtown area, and live in an old elementary school that was converted into an apartment complex. A bit weird architecturally, but they seem to like it.
They’re not writing the whole paper this way, I think they have the student write a complete first draft and then co-edit one paragraph at a time. Hopefully the student improves their editing skills in less than a full papers worth of co-editing sessions
A "mistake" seems to be putting it lightly when the thing has been reiterated multiple times throughout the years, but yeah. Seems more like blind dogma. Obviously people don't like the facts pointed out to them either as you can tell by the down votes on my comment. If I am wrong, please tell me how in a reply.
In my mid twenties I had a mundane 30 minute commute in a crowded London tube which meant no internet (maybe thats different now). I cranked through so many books in that ~2 year timespan.
Strong towns is not a good source. They keep stating "facts" that don't check out. Lanes do not need to be replaced every 20 years. On the busy streets they do, but on the not busy streets they can last a lot longer. They make lots of other mistakes like that in other analysis. Pipes last 60-100 years in the ground, but Strong Towns likes to calculate as if they need to be replaced every 20.
Older crowd checking in, yea, I like my Switch alot and bought plenty of games on it. Mainly because most Nintendo games are not: only play this game for 5 hours a day, multiplayer only live service hell. I fired up Super Mario Odyssey over 20 hours total, played entire game, beat the boss and thought "I had a good time and it's over, moving on."
I was at a hardware store when someone walked out with a compressor.

I said to the clerk "that's a 99-2003 GMC Sierra in case you want to tell them when you call it in"

And he replied "oh we don't even call the police.. they won't do anything"

I was so angry I called corporate on the way home. Corporate told me "oh yes that's right, that's our policy. We have insurance for that!"

I said "that's great you have insurance, but I'd like my police department and newspaper to know my town is going to hell..."
Backwards compatibility with the cartridges and transferring the digital downloads seamlessly would go a long way towards making most other owners and me happier about upgrading/replacing my Switch. I have only two pain points with Switch which I believe everyone has - the web/store is incredibly sluggish no matter your internet connection, and all official Nintendo controllers will eventually drift in the joysticks because they cheaped out on the construction.
The Blitzkrieg worked because the French political leadership was incapable of effectively directing its military, refusing to budge from a "Defend everywhere! All of the time!" strategy.

Folks forget that the French had rather excellent tanks ~1939 [0], especially in their calvary arms (the Hotchkiss H35 and SOMUA S35).

Which makes sense, since they essentially invented the modern tank in the FT. [1]

The rapid success of the Blitzkrieg was mostly a result of (a) France still being in the middle of re-organizing, equiping, and training their armored forces, (b) some bullshit at Sedan, and (c) French leadership making terrible strategic military decisions again and again [2].

Had the DCr's been supplied (who knew tanks need fuel?) and used to effectively counterattack, as designed, German plans would have ground to a halt.

Instead, you had the French Prime Minister declaring that all was lost six days after the Germans invaded the low countries.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_of_France#Inter_War

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_FT

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France#French_lead...
At a certain point I think you're allowed to say you don't care if the person with this email address is capable of signing up or using your service:

very.”(),:;<>[]”.VERY.”very@\\ "very”.unusual@strange.example.com
Agreed - most interesting YouTube video I’ve seen in many months.
Hey could i get a source on the BP stuff please. Just curious as I couldn't find anything on the interwebs
I thought this was going to be about shipping web components made with React, but it's about consuming web components from apps made with React, which is a much more sensible thing to do in my opinion

The problem with web components is that they've never had a templating/reactivity story, which means if you wanted to build one reactively you'd have to ship it with a framework, and shipping a separate framework per-component is just unworkable. So they don't make sense internally to an app, and they don't really make sense for a large library of components. They only really make sense for a single hand-crafted widget that a company wants to ship to various consumers who may be using different frameworks

My dream is still that browsers come up with an actual reactive-templating API for HTML. If they did that, we might finally be able to get rid of frameworks for many common use-cases
Yes. We don't use metric in the USA and you can't make us :)